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September 23, 2011| 17 Elul 5771
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Vol. 7, Iss. 34
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GOV. RICK PERRY CALLS OBAMA’S MID EAST POLICY “DANGEROUS AND NAÏVE”
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Durban I, II & III: Jew Hatred Rivaling Nazi Germany
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BY ED KOCH The Durban III Conference is scheduled to be held in New York City on September 21. The two prior Durban conferences—Durban I held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa and Durban II held in 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland— were supposedly called into session to address racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.
ting it as a full member. Other Republicans, including Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann, also issued statements condemning Obama’s Middle East policies and supporting Israel. The Associated Press reported Romney accusing Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus.” In his statement, Governor Perry heavily criticized what he dubbed Obama’s attempts at appeasement, saying, “We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administration’s
t instantly became clear that the conferences had been hijacked by Muslim nations for the purpose of trashing Israel and directing hate at Jews everywhere. The attacks upon Israel and Jews rivaled the worst manifestations of antiSemitism seen anyplace since Hitler’s Nazi Germany engaged in their campaign to dehumanize Jews leading to the Final Solution and the murder of 6 million Jews. The false charges against Israel and worldwide Jewry at Durban I and II have undoubtedly caused safety problems for the Jewish citizens of many nations, particularly in the underdeveloped countries of the world seeking the favor of the oil rich Arab countries. Durban III undoubtedly will have the same kind of hate-filled rhetoric directed at both Israel and Jews everywhere. Of that I have no doubt. Today, across the world, anti-Semitism is rising in countries such as Great Britain, France and Russia and increasing in Scandinavia and elsewhere in the European Union as well. Many of these countries seeking lucrative
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Top Arab-Israeli Diplomat to Address New York Students
Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry addresses the crowd at the W Hotel in Manhattan, alongside Jewish community leaders. On the left is newly-elected Congressman Bob Turner (R-NY). UN recognize the Palestinian state by admitBY TOVA KRAUSZ Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has embarked on a bid for the presidency in 2012, held a press conference on Tuesday at the W Hotel in Manhattan’s Union Square. His speech addressed the present situation facing Israel with regards to the Palestinians’ unilateral bid for statehood. ccording to AFP, this is the governor’s first major foreign policy address since rising to the top of the field of Republican White House hopefuls. Perry insisted that the U.S. government should cut funding to the United Nations and Palestinian territories and close the DC offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization should the
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